Directed by Jaron Albertin, the clip begins with a man giving a speech about how “65 percent of the world say they no longer believe in a religious faith,” and how modernity has rejected the existence of a god.

Combining a heavy organ tone with a beating-heart bass line, Stars create a surreal backdrop for a nude girl running through Toronto’s Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre.

“This video is based around the idea of changes that we feel deeply and personally, but which also seem to bear the weight of the world,” she adds. “The dancer’s changes are strange and otherworldly. We watch as change is forced upon her, and how she learns to live through it, as fate demands.”

Source – Spinner

Shots Issue 129 Contender

View Jaron’s Evil Dead HERE

Jaron’s Evil Dead wins Freakiest Ad of 2008 by AdFreak.com. Contending against many other great spots, Saatachi & Saatchi Toronto and Spy Films’ Jaron Albertin comes out-on-top.

View Jaron Albertin’s REEL HERE

Albertin spoke at length to Paper Thin Walls about the techniques he used to give Emily Haines’ “Hell” promo such a twisted appeal.

With some in-depth discussion of his inspiration, how shooting with a thermal camera presented its own nightmares and how the challenges – from inadvertent nudity to low resolution – were overcome it makes for a great read.

Find out more about his vision of life through an infernal lens here